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It was stated by several Ufologists that Stringfield got a lot of info from Richard Doty. Look him up

Paranormal Nightmare, This is UNFORGIVABLE!

German Archaeologist Faked 21 Skulls & Fragments As Prehistoric?

Life Began Much Faster Than We Thought

UAP Drones and Why Are We Not Looking Closer to "Home"?

 We are learning more and more that the universe is older than we thought before.  We are learning more about hominid species that walked the Earth well before we ever thought.  

So if we have been misjudging things based on lack of knowledge up to this point then it makes logical sense that if intelligent life exists beyond our solar system then it might be much older than we imagined and if no human mindset there is no reason why it would have destroyed itself. 

Again, that is the negative human mind thinking itself the epitomy of intelligent life.  Therefore as we are a destructive species that enjoys killing itself and the planet it is on any other life form will do the same. Professor Brian Cox is an exponent of the "They all killed themselves" blather which is a good indicator of FAR Syndrome (Fear of Alien Reality).

Decades and many, many millions have been spent looking out into deep space for a signal so old and far away that it will get someone a Nobel Prize but they need not worry that living alien life exists any more.

The "efforts" to look at nearby star systems has been somewhat lacking. If our Sol system is in the right place in the Milky Way (that isn't a thing but some astronomers do mention that)  then how about our neighbours?

Forget all the grifters and "drone UAP" stories and think about this in a logical way.  When UFO activity first started getting seriously noticed in the late 1940s and there was (there really was) discussion amongst some astronomers and scientists who followed the loose principles of Science and gathered information and analysed reports the main possible sources of origin were Mars and Venus. Our knowledge of the Universe is just toe-dipping at the moment but in the 1940s/1950s Mars and Venus were all we really knew to an extent.

Some astronomers did point telescopes in the directions of our planetary neighbours but then things changed.

The fanatics worshipping "space brothers" appeared and turned the whole subject of flying saucers into one of (as we know from all the available historical documents) right wing, racist belief -come on: tall, blue eyed, blond haired super human entities were the Aryan dream.

Suddenly anyone trying to take the subject seriously had the contactee and space brothers thrown back at them and wanting to keep their jobs and salaries....they withdrew. We know that the intelligence community kept and keep an eye on UFO reports and if they did not they would not be worthy. As one military man once told me: "Remember Pearl Harbor. We don't want any 'Pearl Harbors' from space!"

Also, UFO reports were good to hide secret aircraft development or even get "the enemy" to believe that you had something far in advance of anything in their arsenal (and the United States and Soviet Union took in a lot of Nazi scientists working on German research programs so....).  Confuse the enemy. Warn witnesses that they need to keep quiet and quite a few did only revealing decades later that they believed what they saw was advanced US aircraft and it was their patriotic duty to keep quiet.

I know that certain agencies kept (and keep) an eye on UFO sightings as I used to exchange reports with a member of one agency up until the mid 1990s.  UFOs are useful to the military and intelligence community in so many ways.  If you know UFO history you will be able to pluck from a list of examples (or you could buy the Haunted Skies UFO Encyclopaedia and get educated).

It makes logical sense that, with the Universe the size it is, that the first place to look for "Them" is close by. In the 1960s on as TV programme that looked at flying saucer reports Carl Sagan stated that "intergalactic travel" would take too long and therefore regular UFO reports showed that we were not dealing with alien visitation. Oddly, Sagan stated that there was no reason Earth might not have been visited in ancient times -which leaves you scratching your head a tad.  But then we know from people who were close to him that there were UFO cases that puzzled him but he was not allowed to talk about due to the work he undertook with certain agencies. The late Stanton Friedman stated in an interview that Sagan could not explain some cases but persisted as a skeptic in public. That is a whole other story.

The point is that Sagan, who was a very bright person and not an academic dullard always referred to the vastness of intergalactic travel.  Publicly, that was that but no one asked why intergalactic when our own galaxy has millions of stars?   Smoke and mirrors.

If Starlink satellites can be sent up in droves then why has no one sent up a large number of similar satellites but designed to spread out into the solar system with the task of simply looking for any intelligent signal or, as some have suggested, alien probes hidden in the asteroid belt?

Why have all efforts not been concentrated on our nearest neighbouring systems which makes far more sense unless, of course. you have FAR Syndrome?  Odd lights are more likely natural phenomenon (UNP) and other sightings, single witness cases, we have to have careful with.  But good, clear day time sightings and particularly multi-participant encounter cases are something we need to look at in more depth.

The Hill case is over 60 years old and even then not the first such encounter (just the first big publicised US case). Travis Walton-that is over 40 years ago. Why keep concentrating on those cases and the fake "Grey" phenomenon when there are cases out there with far more to offer?   Thomas Mantell was not shot down by a UFO -he died as a result of making mistakes. Why do the grifters and Ufologists keep bring up these cases?

In my books I have looked at lesser known cases but good solid ones (nothing is 100% as for that we need a stolen alien artefact from a craft) which I looked at and tried to explain but when you have multiple percipients and physical evidence its pretty hard to explain.

Should we be probing our own system for (possible) alien probes?  Yes.

Should we be concentrating our search for alien intelligence in neighbouring solar systems?  Yes.

The question is why aren't we?

UFOs over Manchester Airport?

 Firstly, allow me to state that despite what grifters on X or You Tubers click-baiting for views and money: there is NO "panic" in Manchester or London as stated.  Most people have no interest in what is going on and most who live locally identify what is being seen as drones -and occasionally noisy ones.

Re Manchester here is something that EVERYONE has clipped out of videos as well as still images...who is the fella with the safety gear and seemingly operating(?) something? 
And WHY do we only see the object on the ground and then suddenly hundreds of feet up in the air Ufological fakery for You Tube and internet hits and making money from views. 
Incidentally, this vlogger used the screenshot but DID NOT show the figure.

Wildman Legends from Northern Canada [Compilation]

Earth The Lost Contacts -The Truth Behind UFOs?

 

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There have been many claims of UFO landings and encounters with alien entities since 1947 and while some such as that of Betty and Barney Hill and Travis Walton may be well known they were not the first and certainly not the best incidents. Encounter claims are a world wide phenomenon and not confined to the United States. After 50 years of the CE3K/Alien Entity Study, For this fifth book looking at CE3K/AE reports Terry Hooper has chosen some of the best and least known reports as well as some that might be known but adding much detail; Aveley, Ewloe, Kingfield and others deserve to be better known as does the case of Elsie Oakensen, Bronte Lloyd, Chapters include:

The Buckfastleigh Mystery

The Jose C. Higgins Close Encounter 1947

The 1973 Onilson Patero UFO encounter/Abduction Case

Villa Santina 1947

Pontejos Santander Spain -6th January, 1969

The Näslund and Nilsson Encounters

Mrs. Church and the Green ‘Japanese’

Never Trust Child Witnesses?

Starry, Starry Night -The Silbury Hill Encounter

The 1977 Lindley, New York UFO Incidents

The Boy Who Encountered Creatures At Vilhelmina

Just The Daily Drive Home From Work

The “Is That It Then?” Reports

The Bronte Lloyd Lost Encounter

The Puchetta Encounter

Ronald Wildman: A Man “Muddled Up About Time”

The Kingfield Enigma

The Lorry Driver

What Was At The Window?

The Multi-Witness Abduction That Did Not Happen -But It Did

The Shamrock Cafe Abduction -The Best UK Case?

Lynda Jones: The Abduction Ufology Knew About -Sort Of

What Happened At Black Brook Farm?

The “Mince Pies” Martians

There Was Missing Time and more

If you want to read factual, researched accounts rather than fiction then this book will educate you on these contacts -many ignored by Ufology, mishandled or plain ignored.

Bigfoot Proof…Why It Wasn’t a Suit in the Patterson-Gimlin Film

The point here is that this was 57 years ago.

A debunker will now debunk your claims and after that another believer will come in and make a video and another debunker and so on ad infinitum.

In 57 years this is (allegedly) the BEST footage of a Sasquatch. We have more trail cams and people out there with cameras than ever before in history (and also more fakers). The Patterson-Gimlin footage has no value other than as a gimmick to get blog and YT views. NOTHING new can be said about this footage because it has all been covered before.

We need far more cameras in remote areas and far less churning up of questionable footage (as in no one can say yes or no)

Webb Falsified Dark Matter Prediction – And No One Cares

AARO Released "UAP" Video: Puerto Rico Objects

"On April 26, 2013, an infrared sensor onboard a U.S. Customs and Border Protection aircraft captured footage of a UAP event over the Rafael Hernandez Airport near Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. The footage appears to depict a UAP moving at high speed, splitting into two objects, and entering and exiting the water before disappearing into the ocean off Puerto Rico's northwestern coast. AARO assesses with high confidence that the objects did not demonstrate anomalous speeds or flight behaviors. An Intelligence Community partner's reconstruction of the flight path and look angle from the infrared sensor indicates that the video instead depicts two objects traveling near each other rather than a single object splitting into two. This reconstruction also demonstrates that the objects traveled in a straight line at wind speed and did not enter the water at any point."

AARO Released "UAP" Video: Mt. Etna Object

"In December 2018, a forward-looking infrared video sensor aboard an uncrewed U.S. Air Force platform captured this footage while operating over the Mediterranean Sea. This footage depicts an object that appears to be transiting a plume of superheated gas and ash produced by an eruption of Mt. Etna, a volcano in Sicily, Italy. AARO coordinated an interagency and international analytical effort that determined that optical effects from the intense atmospheric conditions near the volcano distorted the video, causing the object to appear to transit the plume. AARO assesses with moderate confidence that the footage instead depicts a balloon approximately 170 kilometers from the caldera traveling at wind speed and direction."

UAP Hearing on November 13th: What We Know (And What We Don't)

Poltergeists -Messengers from UFO Occupants? Or "Whoops! Face Book Did It Again!"

 Just an update.  This post was removed when shared on Face Book as going against community policies.  A quote from two experts who wrote THE source book on poltergeist phenomena is against FB policy.  

Meanwhile on other FB pages people spout 100% provably incorrect information on Nazca lines, ancient astronauts, UFOs and much more. So, FB policy is that trash and misinformation is what it wants?

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Gauld and Cornell's 1979 book, Poltergeists, predicted exactly what has happened (p. 20):

"No doubt, on this view of things, we must shortly expect the first poltergeists  which function as messengers from the occupants of UFOs"  

They nailed that one before the New Ufology grifters popped up.

Just A Few Thoughts

I have been lucky in a way.

I have seen, as a youngster in Germany with two others, a large shadowy figure in daylight (as noted in an AOP Journal).

I have witnessed a seemingly solid and black figure walk through a room where I was sat up having gone to bed (and thinking it was my brothers visiting friend). I was wide awake at the time as I have no real sleep pattern and the light coming in the window showed the clock face over the mantlepiece clearly). Years later I found out that others in the house had observed odd things but never spoken openly about them.

I have seen poltergeist activity in clear daylight and taking place within 3 feet (90cms) of me and on two occasions in the presence of others.

'The Monk' is a story in itself. Looked more like a child of 12-13 but in a hooded sandy duffle coat -seen by others in the house and on one occasion I ran out as soon as it passed by a front gate which took 10-12 seconds to get to...nothing. I even looked into other peoples' gardens. Nothing.

I have observed "UFOs" (NOT spacecraft but what I termed UNP) on six occasions and twice at close proximity.

I was also with my younger brother, grandfather, father, sister and cousin in Germany when we all saw an almost chimp like animal jump a heck of a distance into the dense forestry. My grandfather laughed when I said that I thought it was chimp-like. He had seen the creature himself make a longer leap0 and as far as he was concerned it was a storm spirit (or elemental).

Also in Germany I observed at a distance as well as within 6 feet of me a raccoon dog before they were even supposed to be in that part of Germany.

As a child (8 or 9) in Germany I fell through ice into a frozen (LARGE) pond and last thing I remembered was seeing the inlet that allowed fresh water in. Next thing I was about 4 feet away from the pond on my hands and knees and looking towards it as everyone who had seen me fall in were running over. Decades later still no explanation how I got onto dry land facing the pond -or why, when I got home soaked to the skin, I told my mother "I fell into a puddle"!!!

In Germany, just before my parents came back to England, they observed a large bright UFO over forestry. In that same area a decade later I am my family watched a large Zeppelin/airship fly over the same forestry. Amazing sight. One problem was when I learnt there were NO airship[s in Germany at that time.

A point here is that I observed or experienced all of this first hand with no panic but trying to find a rational explanation. To observe a glass object move 30cms off of a shelf and drop to the floor and not break was remarkable. No "Was that something thrown in the dark on another floor?" and no screaming out "Oh crap -ghost -Run! Run! Run!"

There are other experiences and I need to point out that I do not believe in ghosts so what was seen? What was behind the poltergeist phenomena? And despite all of this no running in fear although on one occasion I felt fear so strong that I did retreat upstairs but slowly and backwards (and I then learnt that others had similar experiences and would not venture down the stairs alone).

I do not like hoaxers, exaggerating incidents or lack of investigation and research -but this seems to be common amongst "truth seekers". We used to hear an odd sound or see something strange we never turned and ran because that was what we were there to investigate: we literally ran at the anomaly.

I think that I am at the end of the monster, ghost and UFO chasing career. That does not mean that my mind is no longer focussed on finding the truth. In a room full of conversations I will hear eight words that immediately send me rushing over: "We can't explain it. A complete mystery really"

Ancient Aliens is Pro Satan

1/2 November 2024 -The main object returned with companions

 

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The Manhattan Alien Abduction | Official Trailer | Netflix

This case was PROVEN  a hoax -it was the case that killed Budd Hopkins credibility -he KNEW it was fake and he did the facts and it is even documented on this blog.

This just shows how far down the scammer hole Ufology has gone.

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UAP on Drone Storm footage?

 Normally I would not bother but I was watching this video and a large white light passes the drone...

Any explanations out there?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/video-shows-mammoth-28-foot-124102668.html

I Guess I Now Believe Bigfoot Does Exist!

Astronomers Just Looked at Those Dyson Sphere Stars in Radio Light. Here...

Near-Collision With Other Star Jumbled Up Our Solar System, Physicists Says

Mysteries of Ontario

The Monkey Man of Delhi

“Just above the tree line.” UFOs witnessed near trees or in the woods

Curse of the Thunderbird Photo

Earth: The Lost Contacts

 

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There have been many claims of UFO landings and encounters with alien entities since 1947 and while some such as that of Betty and Barney Hill and Travis Walton may be well known they were not the first and certainly not the best incidents. Encounter claims are a world wide phenomenon and not confined to the United States. After 50 years of the CE3K/Alien Entity Study, For this fifth book looking at CE3K/AE reports Terry Hooper has chosen some of the best and least known reports as well as some that might be known but adding much detail; Aveley, Ewloe, Kingfield and others deserve to be better known as does the case of Elsie Oakensen, Bronte Lloyd, Chapters include: The Buckfastleigh Mystery The Jose C. Higgins Close Encounter 1947 The 1973 Onilson Patero UFO encounter/Abduction Case Villa Santina 1947 Pontejos Santander Spain -6th January, 1969 The Näslund and Nilsson Encounters Mrs. Church and the Green ‘Japanese’ Never Trust Child Witnesses? Starry, Starry Night -The Silbury Hill Encounter The 1977 Lindley, New York UFO Incidents The Boy Who Encountered Creatures At Vilhelmina 128 Just The Daily Drive Home From Work The “Is That It Then?” Reports The Bronte Lloyd Lost Encounter The Puchetta Encounter Ronald Wildman: A Man “Muddled Up About Time” The Kingfield Enigma The Lorry Driver What Was At The Window? The Multi-Witness Abduction That Did Not Happen -But It Did The Shamrock Cafe Abduction -The Best UK Case? Lynda Jones: The Abduction Ufology Knew About -Sort Of What Happened At Black Brook Farm? The “Mince Pies” Martians There Was Missing Time and more If you want to read factual, researched accounts rather than fiction then this book will educate you on these contacts -many ignored by Ufology, mishandled or plain ignored.

John Hanson: Haunted Skies and The British UFO Archive -Interview by Brent Raynes

Many Thanks to Brent for allowing me to use his interview (images added)

Above: John Hanson (c)2024 J. Hanson/Haunted Skies

John Hanson is a noted British ufologist who has acted as a consultant to the distinguished journal FSR (Flying Saucer Review). A retired police officer, John has investigated and researched many incredible cases, plus has seen mysterious orbs of light, experienced missing time, and experienced small apported stones. In one instance, was even struck by one!

Editor: John, please share with us some details and background about yourself.

John Hanson: I was born in Didcot, Berkshire UK in 1945. I had Spanish and English grandparents. My mother was in Land Army, my father RAF. Happy childhood. Father RSPCA Inspector (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals). Moved around every seven years. Lived in Halifax, moved to Cheltenham, went to work in Cheltenham as a Chef, joined Birmingham City Police in 1966, then settled in Birmingham for over 27 years.

I retired from the West Midlands Police in 1995, after serving 27 and a half years, fourteen of which were in the CID. I have three children, now adults. One is a Police Inspector, the other is a Civilian Radio operator, working at Bourneville Lane Police Station in Birmingham, West Midlands ­ close to the famous Cadbury’s factory.

Editor: Please share with us the details of your UFO involvement? What happened?

John Hanson: On the 19th of January 1995, I was at home suitably ensconced in the depth of the armchair watching of all things the X-Files which ironically was showing an episode about an Iraqi pilot chasing a UFO when the telephone rang. It was a close police colleague of mine who told me about a UFO that had been seen over Birmingham at 6:30 p.m., described initially as an orange ball of fire seen over the city center, then witnessed by a doctor in the Moseley area some 4 miles away as a tadpole shaped object with a dark blue head and light blue tail.

Above:some of the best UFO sourcebooks out there  (c)2024 J. Hanson/Haunted Skies

As a result of the doctor making a 999 call to the police my colleague and his partner, a female officer, attended at the scene and drove around looking for what had happened to the object when they came across a massive saucer shaped object with a thin rippling red line running through it surrounded by a blue haze, over the Stirchley area of the city some two miles away from where the doctor had reported seeing his “object.”

After interviewing the officer and his colleague it was clear that they had witnessed something very inexplicable. This was the trigger that raised my curiosity. Surely there was no such thing as UFOs, or flying saucers. They didn’t exist, or did they? After all I had no reason to disbelieve the accounts given to me by the two officers.

Above: John Hanson revisits Rendlesham Forest with Colonel Charles Halt, USAF (ret) (c)2024 J. Hanson/Haunted Skies

I contacted the local radio stations and told them what had happened without of course disclosing the officers names, subsequently an article appeared in the Birmingham Evening Mail, bringing its readers attention to a ‘Flying saucer seen over the Police Training Center’ together with a possible explanation that what they had seen could have been a shooting star!

Now I don’t know much about shooting stars, but I do know that logically they don’t behave in this manner, so I felt left with the frustration of not being able to rationally obtain a satisfactory answer to what it was the officers had seen.

Over the next 2-3 years, I was to continue to receive information about other sightings which had taken place on the same evening. They included a variety of objects seen all over the UK, including a “D” shaped object seen by a woman teacher in Oxford, who was exercising her dogs when she saw it moving over the countryside, “following the contours of the open countryside.”

It was at this stage that I met with Dawn Halloway, now my partner, while giving a talk at the local college. How naïve I really was at that early stage of my UFO research, remembering distinctly how unsettling it was listening to a Bill Cooper tape with his revelations about the Secret Government and the recovery of alien bodies, matters that I am not qualified to give any opinions on, other than material like this, in my opinion, should be disseminated with care. I knew of one young man who was very traumatized after listening to the tapes.

Whilst such ‘indoctrination’ may be considered by some to be the only way to get the message across, I think we have to be wary of alienating ourselves against a general public, the majority of whom still remain skeptical of the existence of UFOs and have no comprehension as to how prolific UFO activity was during the middle of the last century.

Above: Probably the definitive book on Rendlesham from the perspective of Col. C. Halt  (c)2024 J. Hanson/Haunted Skies

Editor: What happened next?

John Hanson: A strange thing happened, after this talk. I was getting ready for bed at about 11:30 p.m., when I happened to look out of the bedroom window overlooking a road that connects Alvechurch with Redditch Worcestershire, when I saw a silvery blob of light, about the size of a football, hanging on the front of the tree opposite the house, some 30 feet away, at a height of about 12 feet.

I reacted fast and picked up the Panasonic video camera (a heavy item in those days) and started filming. The next thing you hear are words to the effect, “This is taking the P****” and the next thing I knew I was waking up and going downstairs as was my usual manner.

I discussed the evening at the college with my son Alex. He mentioned about a strange “light” he had seen from the bedroom window next to mine. I thought OK, so what! And just forgot about it until about 11:30 a.m., when I thought to myself where is the video camera. I searched the house and couldn’t find it, so I rang my friends and asked them, thinking surely I didn’t leave such a bulky item at the college. One of them, who had given me a lift home, told me she had seen me carrying the camera into the house. Straightaway, like a bolt out of the blue, I remembered filming the UFO and rushed upstairs, where I found the camera under the bed. Eagerly, I opened it and placed the film into a VHS Recorder and was astonished to see the object as I had remembered filming it. Within a couple of minutes, it rushed up into the sky and was gone.

Above: part of the Great British UFO Archives  (c)2024 J. Hanson/Haunted Skies

Now I know that there are some people out there who will form their own conclusions about what happened on that late evening, suggesting the value of taking part in hypnotic regression, believing the necessary criteria essential to an abduction experience forms part and parcel of what happened on that late night, a matter I’m not inclined to comment on. All I can tell you is what took place.

Editor: Very interesting story. So what evolved next?

John Hanson: Like so many others before me, and after, I went on that trek to the library and read as much as I could about UFOs, feeling distinctly uneasy about accepting carte blanche those stories involving Close Encounters between humans and aliens. Not that I don’t necessarily disbelieve such encounters have or haven’t taken place. What I felt uneasy about was the way in which some popular UFO authors had carried out their research. I decided the only way to form my own conclusions as to what, who and where this phenomena was all about was to carry out my own research.

At this early stage, I found it incomprehensible to accept why it was that I was supposed to believe that “flying saucers”, a terminology I’m much happier with rather than UFOs (an ambiguity all on its own) could be attributed to the presence of some advanced alien race who changed and updated their machines from ‘Adamski-type craft” (1950s) to triangular ones (1980s), a silly myth propagated by so-called iconic English UFO researchers who should have known that triangular shaped craft were seen before.

Above: John Hanson taking a brief break from archiving (c)2024 J. Hanson/Haunted Skies

It became patently obvious to both of us that the majority of UFO reports would nearly always occur near to ancient sites, and Roman Roads. We put our theory to the test in 1999, when Dawn and I retraced the journey taken by a female motorist, who was driving home along the old Roman Road to Wigmore, Herefordshire, when she and her daughter noticed a yellow oval shaped light pacing the vehicle a few yards away. At one particular point, the “light” shot off across the road and proceeded along a straight course, where it took up a hovering position above the village.

An examination of an old OS map showed the original course of the Roman Road as splitting from the “new road” and crossing the field, confirming the affinity between some (I don’t say all UFOs) and these ancient trackways.

Over the years, Dawn and I were to come across many such accounts, involving ‘encounters’ between motorists and UFOs, the majority of which would invariably take place out in the country, rather than the cities. They nearly always involved similar manifestations, hardly likely to be explained away as earthlights, ball lightning, or plasma energies, as authority in general would have us believe!

Above: says it all Above: John Hanson (c)2024 J. Hanson/Haunted Skies

Rather oddly I was to come across a UFO report which took place at Broadlands Estate, the Hampshire home of Lord Louis Mountbatten, a man who I had the pleasure of meeting through my ex-Father-In-Law, retired CPO Ted West, who had served with Lord Louis on HMS Kelly, being responsible for shooting down a Stuka as the ship sunk beneath his feet at Crete in 1942, whose enthusiasm for the Senior Service, amply propelled by home brewed beer, was to leave me a weaker man, on many occasions during the early period of the 1970s, when I had the privilege of spending time with Ted, then my father-in-law. Halcyon days! His ‘ashes’ after he died were scattered out to sea by Lord Louis himself, a mark of tremendous respect!

I found it always a privilege to meet servicemen who had experienced for themselves some very peculiar phenomenon, going back sometimes to the early 1940s. Who could not be fascinated by stories from World War II pilots, who spoke personally about having seen strange globes of light approaching their aircraft, moving in a process of behavior to be echoed countless times over the years.

Above: a display inside the Great British UFO Archives  (c)2024 J. Hanson/Haunted Skies

Another pilot described being ordered to fire on a UFO tracked on radar over the UK in May 1957. Six seconds from firing his missiles the object rose up and accelerated at fantastic speeds, leaving him to ponder what would have happened if he had fired on it.

These weren’t the results of over excited imaginations. They really happened. Sobering in its implication!

Oddly, although the history of ufology contains a number of examples of interaction between UFOs and vehicles, where the electrics are cut out rendering the vehicle immobile, why is it we have never heard of the same process of behavior taking place with aircraft during the 2nd World War. One presumes that if a heavy bomber had been ‘downed’ by UFO activity a member of the crew would have survived to tell the tale, extraordinary as it may be.

Why is it we have never heard of any ‘manifestations’ taking place within the aircraft itself, taking into consideration the “after effects” of UFO exposure which can involve all manner of strange “secondary phenomena” as seen from examination of many cases brought to our attention over the years, where the UFO witness will on occasion experience what they may believe to be unconnected incidents of high strangeness, the severity of which appears to depend on how severe their exposure to the energy fields of the UFO was.

Editor: Now you also looked into the crop circle phenomenon. Please tell us about that.’

Above: Yes, even cops see UFOs! (c)2024 J. Hanson/Haunted Skies

John Hanson: We decided to pay one of many visits to the Silbury Hill, Avebury area of Wiltshire during the mid-1990s after reading about the spectacular pictograms found in farmer’s fields, matters that, of course, attracted the attention of the newspapers and tabloids, who had a field day if you’ll excuse the pun! One can understand why it was that people flocked to Warminster and the outlying hills, eager for a glimpse of the “thing” during the 1960s, each pursuing their own quest, heads craned skywards. Bygone days. People just moved on, grew up and opened up other chapters in their lives. Now those famous places, like Cradle Hill, Starr Hill, lie dormant, errie and foreboding, waiting patiently for the next wave of activity which will happen, but who knows when some reader will happen by perchance on this web page, 50 years from now or when we are all gone!

The same ‘spirit’ was abundantly present in the Alton Barnes area of Wiltshire. There was always a clamor of excitement when details of newly discovered crop circles were posted on the message board of the local watering hole, The Barge Public House, at Honey Street, Alton Barnes. People would race to the scene, eager to experience for themselves that wonderful feeling that pervades the whole consciousness when you step into a newly created crop circle, accompanied by a fresh smell, reminiscent of a cookie out of the oven, which seems rather befitting, as many of these circles appeared to have been stamped out with a giant cooker cutter. Sadly, as time went by more and more, we became convinced that even the most intricate of crop circles were being hoaxed. We saw many people heading out at night-time, wearing camouflage gear but, to be fair, never came across anybody hoaxing, although we would invariably come across people who had seen UFOs and had some fascinating stories to tell, which we always recorded.

Above: John Hanson stakes out a rather suspect location (c)2024 J. Hanson/Haunted Skies

But despite bleary eyes and lack of sleep, having spent the night under the stars, talking to other like minded people, while fires crackled nearby, bodies fueled by enormous amounts of fresh coffee and crisp cut sandwiches purchased from the café in the nearby market town of Marlborough, blinking in the fresh early morning sunshine, we loved itÉbut nothing is constant. We had to move on as the interest faded.

So in a nutshell, a potted history of the crop circle phenomena as we lived it, not forgetting those amusing interludes when woe betide the one errant researcher who chose to walk through the ‘tram lines’ in a field desperate to reach the newly discovered formation of rape, we can never forget the look on his face when he returned to find the farmer had confiscated his trousers!

Fortunately help was at hand in the form of dear old Viv, a lady from Glastonbury, whose old box van was safe harbor for many weary travelers who experienced the delight of meeting, for the first time, her wonderful dog called ‘Bat,’ aptly named for pervading the atmosphere with a sharp pungent smell. Sadly, he passed away some years ago and, despite many other visits to Wiltshire, we lost touch with Viv, but those rich memories remain.

As our enthusiasm and keenness for the crop circles, still an annual event in Wiltshire, dimmed, although one could never become bored with the sheer beauty of the Wiltshire Countryside and its ancient hills, going back thousands of years, we turned out attention eastwards, feeling we should visit what has become perhaps erroneously known as Britain’s equivalent of Roswell.

We never decided to research into the now world wide famous events that occurred in the forest towards the end of December 1980, purely because we felt what allegedly took place had been literally trashed into submission both in books and magazines over the years.

We met up with Brenda Butler who was instrumental with Dot Street and Jenny Randles in investigating the incident right from the beginning, details of which were eventually published in a book entitled SKYCRASH in 1983 (now out of print) and grew to become firm friends, often staying over at her home in Leiston, and through her met up with people like Larry Warren on the 27th of December 2000, in Rendlesham Forest, a date of some significance as we were fortunate enough to film a series of strange rotating lights over the coast across from the field nominated by Larry Warren at the end of track 10 as being where he saw the UFO land in December 1980. All of this in 12 degrees below freezing!

Above: (c)2024 J. Hanson/Haunted Skies

A few years ago, Brenda used to show us strange photos taken with her 35mill camera during her walks through Rendlesham Forest on which the photographs were obscured by what looked like fogging, or globules of light which I used to attribute as camera defects, of moisture on the lens, but didn’t say anything at the time, not wishing to offend her.

Identical effects were to be noticed however using digital photography, a matter that I raised with a friend who is a professional photographer with a Fleet street background, he was very skeptical and suggested a myriad of explanations, but was staggered when he himself captured many anomalies on film at Rendlesham during a visit there with his wife.

I don’t know what to make of the ‘ORBS,’ ‘Streakers,’ strange mists that appear to take on human forms in the forest, some of which I have myself captured on film, although predominately Brenda has the most success rate. Is there a connection with Brenda’s frequent visits to the forest over the last 20 years, 3-4 times a week? Has she become energized in some way? Are they really representative of a spiritual life force or energies swirling around us for the most time unobserved? Nobody knows.

People ask us if we have seen the orbs. The answer to that is a resounding yes. The first time we saw one was at the end of the track leading to East gate. Dawn pointed at the forest floor and asked me if I could see it. I looked carefully and realized with great excitement that I could see this milky white globe about the size of a football hovering a foot off the ground. I took a photograph and captured it on film.

Generally speaking, you didn’t see orbs all over the place, but there were one or two occasions where you knew they would manifest, and expect to see them there sitting in the branches of the tree, while walking down trace 10 or 12. They grew to be a common feature of the forest.

Even with the proof of a strange swirling mist that halted a few inches in front of someone’s face while meditating down at the seat which faces the field nominated by Larry Warren as where he saw the UFO land in December 1980, and the appearance of glowing red and blue ‘streakers.’ resembling laser lights curving through the trees, still didn’t convince me that there was a paranormal/alien influence at work in the forest, although Brenda believed whatever was in there was representative of an alien benevolent life force, following contact between her and the ETs as she calls them.

Above: John Hanson and collaborator Shirley Edwards (c)2024 J. Hanson/Haunted Skies

During our research into all manner of strange phenomenon, we came across details of a house in Washwood Heath, Birmingham, which had been the target of a number of stones being thrown by unidentified persons, over a period of two years, involving the attention of the West Midlands Police who had tried unsuccessfully to catch the culprit, by using surveillance night cameras, and even consulting the Army to estimate the trajectory of where these stones were coming from, all to no avail.

Our research into this and other reports, notably one in the Doncaster area where a similar situation occurred, showed us that inexplicably these ‘fortean’ phenomena occur. What interested us was that the majority of the stones which appeared were clean, round smooth and polished, almost as if they had been thrown from some ancient beach rather than anything man made.

Unfortunately, there is a great deal of difference between reading about these ‘phenomena’ and experiencing them yourself. In this respect, we can tell you that on many occasions while sitting in a remote part of Rendlesham Forest, we have heard the sound of a thus as a stone strikes the forest floor. Our torches swing round eagerly and the light falls on a round smooth pebble, which is nearly too hot to pick up! Some nights we would expect 2-3 of these stones to fall down, which conclusively proves to me that inexplicable phenomena like this exists. How else can you explain them. They aren’t falling from the sky. Who or what is the non-human influence which lies behind the energy being exerted to throw a stone that often flies through the trees to land next to you. In fact, I can claim to have been struck lightly on the back by one of these small stones, as I had been sitting down and stood up.

Whether these events are connected with the famous incident which took place at Rendlesham Forest in 1980, I cannot say. All I can say is what has happened to me personally, which provides much food for thought. Is it possible manifestations can arise in other wooded areas? Perhaps we should all put it to the test!

We are always interested in hearing about peoples experiences, a matter we have always considered a great privilege, particularly matters that have taken place in the UK as we are in the process of completing a first Volume of Haunted Skies, which covers the period 1946-1966. Our own unique catalogue of everyday UFO events that we have examined, which have occurred in and around the skies of the UK, being assisted by our friend Davey Sankey, whose 3D illustrations grace the pages of our unpublished book, many of which can be found on his web site: www.davidsankey.com/profile.asp

Other information can be found on Welcome to UFOs Over Great Britain, a web site we installed many years ago. (Dedicated to Mr. Gordon Creighton, the editor of FSR).

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